The constitution originally said that we’d have one representative for every 30,000 people.
Which means the House should have about 11,000 members.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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I looked this up to find a source because I'd never heard it. From what I can find, it's one of a few unratified amendments, but this one was proposed in 1789. Sure would've been great if they'd have ratified something like this.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Apportionment_Amendment
As Congress did not set a time limit for its ratification, the Congressional Apportionment Amendment is still pending before the states. As of 2025, it is one of six unratified amendments.
Still an option.
Important details from that link
The U.S. House of Representatives' maximum number of seats has been limited to 435, capped at that number by the Reapportionment Act of 1929—except for a temporary (1959–1962) increase to 437 when Alaska and Hawaii were admitted into the Union
So, as long as the population hasn't increased since 1929, everyone is getting appropriate representation lol
We have the tech to no longer need representative government. Fuck those corporate sell outs, let me represent myself directly.
Maybe you're willing to, but we can't even get a majority of Americans to vote once every four years.
(I've served in student government a few times, and while not directly applicable it was still eye opening - a lot of stuff will not affect you personally but you need to give a shit as an "elected" official because everything effects someone. I put elected in quotes because the first time I got talked into it and the second time happened because nobody else was willing - it's deeply boring work most of the time.)
It doesn't have to be one or the other. You can have representatives by default while allowing anyone to override that vote for themselves.
Check out CGP Grey's Rules for Rulers. It details the power dynamics of any ruling body and shows why authoritarians need to have small cabinets.
Not small enough. Keep going.
Get those standards up.
It's amusing to me that there isn't all that much difference between panels three and four. Orders still have to be passed down the chain to the people doing the work, so there are still at least six people immediately below the jackass.
What makes you think you'd be the remaining one tho
What makes you think they want "smaller" government? It doesn't matter who the autocrat is, putting all the power in one person's hands sucks for everyone
*Almost everyone
Nah, everyone. It would suck for them much less than everyone else, but still suck in a different way. Narcissists aren't happy people no matter what they manage to achieve.
There are people who, disturbed by "big government" today and its tendency to curb the advantages they might gain if their competitiveness were allowed free flow, demand "less govern- ment." Alas, there is no such thing as less government, merely changes in government. If the libertarians had their way, the distant bureaucracy would vanish and the local bully would be in charge. Personally, I prefer the distant bureaucracy, which may not find me, over the local bully, who certainly will. And all historical precedent shows a change to localism to be for the worse.
—Nice Guys Finish First, collected in The Sun Shines Bright, 1981